http://halwebguy.danziger.net/2009/02/27/rip-rocky-mountain-news/ following the crossroads of media and technology products Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:39:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://halwebguy.danziger.net/2009/02/27/rip-rocky-mountain-news/comment-page-1/#comment-44 halwebguy Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:54:37 +0000 http://halwebguy.danziger.net/?p=109#comment-44 @Francesco Interesting perspective. I think the newspapers need to fix the newspapers, but they're up against a big challenge: a bad economy, and an online business model that doesn't work. These sites get tremendous traffic, but advertising alone can't keep them going on the Internet, in a world saturated with publishers. It's a difficult time to change the model, but as more papers go out of business, the necessary changes are inevitable. Just late, but better late than never. @Francesco Interesting perspective. I think the newspapers need to fix the newspapers, but they’re up against a big challenge: a bad economy, and an online business model that doesn’t work. These sites get tremendous traffic, but advertising alone can’t keep them going on the Internet, in a world saturated with publishers. It’s a difficult time to change the model, but as more papers go out of business, the necessary changes are inevitable. Just late, but better late than never.

]]> http://halwebguy.danziger.net/2009/02/27/rip-rocky-mountain-news/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Francesco Gallarotti Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:03:20 +0000 http://halwebguy.danziger.net/?p=109#comment-43 I have to say that when you posted the link to their homepage this morning, I watched the whole thing and was very touched. Then while i was driving to work listening to NPR as usual, I heard all the most recent bad news about Citygroup and Bank of america and got really upset... why is the government helping those and the car companies so much and doesn't do anything with all these smaller and to my opinion more important businesses? According to the government we should all be dumb (no more newspapers) and driving around in gas-gulping cars that shouldn't even be considered an option anymore... What a sad sad place to live... I have to say that when you posted the link to their homepage this morning, I watched the whole thing and was very touched. Then while i was driving to work listening to NPR as usual, I heard all the most recent bad news about Citygroup and Bank of america and got really upset… why is the government helping those and the car companies so much and doesn’t do anything with all these smaller and to my opinion more important businesses? According to the government we should all be dumb (no more newspapers) and driving around in gas-gulping cars that shouldn’t even be considered an option anymore…
What a sad sad place to live…

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